The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-24

/ ~ toO StgOSney 9onOfAI 90 Of10H criminal
proceedings against r. L. Elder Of Detroit,
so, town 136, range 40, which hs had taken
up a. homestead, but aiterward Aban-
doned. Special Agent Chamberlain re-
ports that Elder had cut from thu land
127 cords OF wood worth $3.50 per cord
l ct the mill. Sixty cords 10 hauled oif}and
! sold, and The remainder lay on the place.
A. Z civil suit would not stand with any
show OF SUGGEST q criminal suit was RECON-
Capt. g, e. Tyson, OF the arctic expedi.
| ton vessel Polaris, has been appointed
captain OF the watch OF the war, state and
navy building.
| Senator Mr.. Mcpherson eats 1 bowl OF
mush and milk before going to q dinner
party and cats very little dinner.
Secretary Bayard's daughter enters tho
list OF favored ones, Ex-senator Fair pre-.
sentinR her with 81, 900 riding horse tho
day before he left Washington.
Mrs. Adele Gratiot Washburne wife OF
| Hon. E. R. Washburne,, .ex-pninister: to
France died In Chicago. Nh: Washburno
enjoyed comparatively good health during
the winter, though she had several slight
attacks 81 winter cholera, all OF which
yielded Is remedies. On the 7th inst. she
WAS taken very i'll and confined to her bed.
1
! The California legislature has appropri-
ated about $4,000 to enable the state
| forestry commission to extend it's work of
preventing the destruction OF gro wing trees
and the consequent denudation of the soil,
and OF encouraging tree planting in Q sys-
tematic manner.
Capt. John Carlin, department command.
er OF the G. A. r. OF West Virginia., and a
| veteran of the Rebellion and Mexican
wars, died ae Wheeling, hged sixty eight.
Oswald Ottendorieh proprietor Of the
| New York btants.Zeitung, recently gave
IT'S Of his faithful employees 4 dividend OF
| 10 per cent. on their total earnings for the
year.
It is expected that the French COVE, n.
ment will dissolve the municipal co uncil at
Marseilles for manifesting approval OF the
Paris Commune OF 1871.
George s. Strickles was arrested ut
Racine by United States Marshal West,
charged with sending circulars through the
mails to kifferent parts Of the Northwest
peculiar mechanism upon the receipt oil a
specified sum for a sample.
| Cattle in Grant county, Wis, are report.
ed to be dying in considerable numbers OF
q disease, the origin and name OF which
are unknown. Many farmers have lost
stock which WAS apparently Well at night
but dead before morning:
| 1t is stated that the new alliance among
Germany, Austria and Italy places each
OF these powers on an equality.
8: C: Lister, the silk king OF England, has
an income OF $750,000 year from his
factories alone.
The Warsaw Salt Works; N. T., took fire
| from tho explosion oi q lamp in m eleva.
tor. The new block was entirely destroyed,
together with the refinery. The loss. is es-
timated at from $50, 900 to 500, 900; in
surance from $4,000 to $4,000.
| The Indian wife of Charles Hale has be,
gun suit at Wabash, Ind, for divorce, nj.
ieging cruelty, adultery, etc. In 1881
| Nancy Wacaconah, the plaintiff, adver-
tised Tor white hus band and the alliance
with Hale was the result.
The announcement that the appoint
tnent Of Hon: Benton J: Hall Of Iowa rs
commissioner OF patents has been deter
mined upon Is received by all parties in Bur-
| lington, Iowa, with great satisfaction. The
position was rendered him by Secretary
Lamar several weeks ago, and MIR. Hall
has signifed his acceptance. though it in.
wolves the surrender Of q lucrative law
practice in Iowa.
c. H. Lewis, one of the prominent early
settlers OF Hudson, Wis.,, died OF paralysia.
Maj. Bush, army paymaster, is robbed
In Wyoming.
! Postoffice site changed: Minnesota:
Minnesota: Lindsay, Polk county: Post
master COMMUNICATIONS: Cedar, W.
schult1: Fourth-clsss ,postmasters ap-
| pointed-Dakota: Buffalo Center, f. A.
| Rowe: Bush, E. Bush; Claremont, H. C.
Hamilton; Cosat, E. E. Holiday; Thatch.
er, H. Holderness.
! Henry B. Rumsey Of New York, who was
one of the guests at the Richmond hotel,
Buffalo, ON the night of the fire, and who
was terribly burned about the body, died.
The Chicago republicans nominated
John A. Roche for mayor, C. H. Plantz
for city treasurer and Hampstead Wash.
burne for city attorney.
The next Ohio governor will have sal.
airy OF So, 600 q year.
L. R. Lowry, conductor OF the freight in
the recent collision at Magnolia, Oak, who
has been under examination before Justice
Plummer at Fargo for two days past, was
| discharged.
Walter Ridgley, a wealthy farmer at
Texacarna, Texas, shot and killed two fer
rymen with whom he was quarreling, and
who had tried to kiln him. The uncle and
brother OF one OF the dead men waylaid
Ridgley, who shot them both dead.
The treasury department has issued q
circular to national and state banks in re-
gard to the Endorsement and payment Of
cases in which societies and lodges hold
United States bonds, in the names OF trust
ees, proper evidence Of their election must
be filed in the Office ofthe first auditor, and
that the certificates Of authority for the
Endorsement and collection Of interest
checks must come from all the trustees and
not from the society or lodge.
James Burke, claiming to have been a
merchant and a school teacher at Shcr-
man, Iowa, until short time ago, has just
returned to Chicago from New York, where
he claims to have been robbed OF $780,
Further particulars about the tragedy
| at Hastings, Neb.. show that DR.. G. w.
Randall was killed by the eighteen-year.
old brother of the girl whom he had ravish.
ed. Young Hart, with the smoking pistol
room, no one attempting or caring to ar
rest him, not even the sheriff, whom he
passed on the stairway. At the time
young Hart was unknown to the crowd.
David Clark, a retired merchant, OF Hart
ford, has given his farm OF 1,OS1 acres, in
the suburbs OF that city, to the Hartford
Hospital and tho Old Peoples Home. The
donation includes 20 Jersey cattle and all
the farm property, the whole valued at $780,
900.
At the late session OF the United States
district court at Santa Fe, N.Mex., not one
OF the 1874 persons indicted for perjury in
making entries ofpublic land was convicted.
The jurors probably had ''some of them
hams"
Owen Mccarthy robbed James Buchan-
an of Norway. Iowa, in Chicago. taking
from him $50 and notes calling for 1915,
and left him beaten to insensibility on the
Northwestern railway trucks near Wells
street..
The second trial ofJohn w. Lauer, charg.
ed with the murder OF his wife, ended at Oma-
ha having occupied two weeks. The jury were
out about four hours and returned q YER